The Stress-Less Life with Dr. Yip
Welcome to the Stress-Less Life with Dr. Yip, a podcast about conquering your fears and overcoming anxiety. Join nationally recognized mental health expert Dr. Jenny Yip as she discusses the many forms of anxiety and OCD and the steps you can take to live your life with less stress. send us your questions and comments to thestresslesslife@dryip.com and see more at www.dryip.com/thestresslesslife.
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7: Breaking the Supermom Myth: Societal Expecta...
Ever notice how moms are expected to do it all – the career, the home, the kids – while dads get praised just for showing up? That's the "supermom myth," and it leaves so many moms stuck in guilt, exhaustion, and burnout. This week, Dr. Jenny Yip sits down with Paige Connell to unpack the double standards behind those expectations, and how moms and dads can start shifting them — without blame.
41 min
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6: Mental Health & Boundaries with Family with ...
Ever feel like you're carrying the emotional weight of your whole family, fixing everything while ignoring your own needs? When someone you love is struggling with their mental health, it's easy to confuse care with self-sacrifice. In this episode, Dr. Jenny Yip sits down with Jennifer Meyer, CEO and designer of Jennifer Meyer Jewelry, for an honest and deeply personal conversation about what it really takes to support a loved one through OCD — without losing yourself or enabling the illness in the process.
43 min
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5: Rediscovering Your Mom+ Identity with Amy Ta...
Remember who you were before "mama" became your full-time title? You haven't lost her — she's just been buried under piles of laundry and never-ending to-do lists. In this episode, Dr. Jenny Yip sits down with creative entrepreneur, author, and maker Amy Tangerine to explore what it really means to rediscover your Mom+ identity. Because you are so much more than just mom, and honoring that is not selfish. It's essential.
42 min
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4: Emotional Boundaries from Unsolicited Parent...
Ever get parenting advice that you didn't ask for and definitely didn't want to hear? Whether it's a stranger at the grocery store or your own mother-in-law, unsolicited parenting advice is everywhere. In this episode, Dr. Jenny Yip sits down with Stacey Freeman, PhD — creator of the lifestyle blog Posh and Progress — to talk about the emotional boundaries that honor you as the parent, because your sanity matters more than other people's opinions.
34 min
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3: Work-Life Awareness vs Work-Life Balance wit...
Have you ever wondered why work-life balance feels more like a setup than a solution? Real life doesn't come evenly split. Some weeks your job demands everything, other weeks your family does, and trying to force a perfect 50-50 just leaves you feeling like you've failed. In this episode, Dr. Jenny Yip shifts the conversation from balance to awareness with guest Sinead de Vries — a South African-born host, content creator, and actress based in LA — about why striving for 50-50 sets moms up for guilt, and how building awareness of your own seasons and hotspots helps you get ahead of burnout instead of blindsided by it.
42 min
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2: The "Working Mom" Myth and The Invisible Loa...
Do you know how heavy your invisible load is as a mom, whether your work happens inside the home or outside of it? Because let's face it, work is work, no matter where it happens. And all that mental juggling you do that no one else sees, acknowledges, or thanks you for is some of the most draining work of all. In this episode, I sit down with my good friend and dear colleague Michelle Massi, a licensed marriage and family therapist with over 20 years of experience treating OCD and OC-related disorders, to unpack exactly that. We start with a question that changes how you see everything: why do we call it a "working mom" when we never say "working dad"? From there we get into what the invisible load actually looks like day to day, why guilt shows up so differently for moms than it does for dads, and why self-care isn't optional. It's self-maintenance.
36 min
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1: Self-Maintenance to Prevent Burnout with Ann...
In this episode, I sit down with Anne Watson, award-winning photographer, holistic practitioner, PR professional, wine grower, and devoted mama to her 11-year-old son Russell, to talk about what it really takes to prevent burnout and show up fully for the people you love.
40 min
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#41: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (Worrying)
19 min
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#40: Discipline and Punishment
26 min
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#39: Olfactory Reference Syndrome
21 min
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#38: Happiness
21 min
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#37: Body Dysmorphic Disorder with Dr. Katharin...
31 min
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#36: Social Anxiety with Dr. Stefan Hofmann
30 min
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#35: Meet Joe's Dad
21 min
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#34: Meet Joe with OCD
20 min
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#33: Illness Anxiety (Hypochondriasis)
25 min
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#32: Bullying
29 min
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#31: Parenting & Technology
20 min
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#30: Attachment Parenting
24 min
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#29: Teen Anxiety
26 min
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#28: Stopping the Noise with Dr. Reid Wilson
29 min
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#27: Living With Uncertainty with Dr. Jonathan ...
27 min
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#26: OCD Odds and Ends
19 min
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#25: Forbidden Sexual Thoughts OCD
18 min
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#24: Pure Obsessional OCD (Pure O)
19 min